MASHUP

#Festivals of the WorldFri.19 / 14:30 - 15:45

2nd Floor

There are four types of creative expression revolutionizing cinema nowadays: TV series, Transmedia, Virtual Reality and Mashup. The first one enriches the medium with complex characters, the second one furthers the means of expression, the third enlarges our field of vision and the fourth creates unusual and sometimes unexpected combinations. Only the latter doesn’t, at the moment, have a Festival of its own. We would like to change that.

POP MASHUP SAMPLING FLOOR
The Mashup, both an avant-garde and a popular cinema, is the audiovisual pop art of today. It is the art of composing, with images from the past, the face of our society in the post digital revolution era. Thus, the mashup is both looking towards the past, which it commemorates through borrowing, and concerned about the future in his warning against the wrongs of our time. Has the internet brought people closer or has it isolated us ? Even though the digital creator has never had such a wealth of materials and diverse talents available to him, he knows the loneliness of ”likes”. The mashup creator shows the power of remixing and “détourning” as an essential rereading of the past with the digital tools of the present. Yet, he must still navigate through the remnants of a capitalist system that does not yet grant him the right to live from his art.

Curator | Julien Lahmi

Julien Lahmi began his film career in the field of “creative documentary”, directing Vietnam Paradiso in 2001, which was programmed at the Cinémathèque Française and released nationally 12 years later. He then moved to fiction and experimental cinema. The themes of childhood, memory, fantasies and of the impermanence of things led him to initiate the concept of cinema of “recycling – the re-lighting of the family memory”, fictions made from family films such as La Montagne au Goût de Sel. From then on, he has been making mashup movies which remove icons from their pedestals (The Hidden Face of Pop, MK2 selection), as well as working with copyright free images (Munchsferatu version animée, 1st prize of the Wikimedia Public Domain Remix contest) or bringing together the free and the non-free (Moonlight Serenade). He is the creator and editor-in-chief of Mashup Cinéma, an encyclopedic webzine dedicated to the cinema of borrowing in the digital age. In partnership with the CNC and the Institut Français, he took over the Mashup Film Festival.

This sound piece would have interested Andy Warhol without any doubt. We’re far from the Pop Art colors but close to its ideology : a new way of perceiving the celebrity, desacralizing the icons.

Breaking Bad Remix | Chris Lohr | U.S.A | 2014 | 2'30''

The standard-bearer of audiovisual sampling. This video lays bare the stakes of today’s mashup : sampling in order to better liven up the atmosphere.

Moonlight Serenade | Julien Lahmi | France | 2015 | 15'

The story of a reclusive man who discovers the existence of a more colorful and mixed universe: the world of women’s images. But if this world is more open-minded, it is also more difficult to understand.

Weird Trailer Batman v Superman | Aldo Jones | Italy | 2016 | 2'50''

A work that turns the ultra commercial exercise of the blockbuster trailer into a pleasurable visual frenzy. It seems we’re assisting to the demolition of a marketing plan wishing to pull us away from the reality of a film sold to the greatest number of people.

Mankind’s Destiny | Richard Vézina | Canada | 2016 | 15'45''

A mash-up/homage to space exploration and science-fiction films set in space. In fact, an increasing number of sci-fi movies opt for technical realism close to actual current and future space conquest accomplishments.

The Chickening | Nick DenBoer & Davy Force | Canada | 2016 | 5'20''

Nick DenBoer and Davy Force love The Shining and have decided in this mashup to add a few changes to the film which makes it fly! Come on! Don’t chicken out and come to see it !

Hell’s Club | Antonio Maria Da Silva | France | 2015 | 9'40''

A blending of disparate film materials that belong to diverse eras of amercian pop film making with a discrepency of 20 years between the oldest and the youngest film. Have you ever thought about what John Travolta’s character in Pulp Fiction would think of Tony Manero’s dance moves from Saturday Night Fever? Or what would happen if Brian Flanagan from Cocktail crossed paths with Vincent from Collateral ?